The theme of this year's colloquium is 'Environmental Challenges and Solutions' which provokes delegates into considering how their research either investigates contemporary threats to the natural and human environment and/or contributes towards finding solutions. Oral presenters will be asked to include one sentence in their abstract submission and dedicate their final slide to explain how their research relates back to the overarching theme of the conference.
ENVIRON was last held in Trinity College Dublin in 1993, and as one of the original hosts of this event, we are now very pleased to welcome the colloquium back to Trinity College in 2014, which is being organising jointly by the Schools of Natural Science and Engineering.
The ENVIRON colloquium is the largest annual gathering of environmental researchers across the island of Ireland, with over 300 delegates attending the event each year. It provides a venue for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to exchange information on their most up-to-date findings with a large and diverse audience made up of academics, industry members and policy makers. It is a wonderful platform for the sharing of ideas and for knowledge transfer among groups working in disparate disciplines. The interdisciplinary nature of the colloquium and its associated workshops fosters successful interaction between scientists, engineers, social scientists, medical researchers and industry members and policy makers.
